[Corpora-List] Plea for help

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Dear Isa Abdul-kaader.

The course we are running next month (LCM07: Corpus Design and Use.
 December 2--5) is on exactly this topic; please find details at
        http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/lexicom
and particularly
          http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/courses/CPDLex/modules/LCM07.html

    Regards,

        Adam Kilgarriff
        Course Leader

Isa Abdul kaader wrote:

>Dear members,
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>    I just started on my course in Corpus Linguistics but alas due to poor
>introduction, I seem to be completely lost. Could anyone of you kind souls
>direct me to any reading or sites that gives clear introduction on what is
>Corpus Linguistics, the areas of concerns within the field.
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>   I would on the whole like to know how to complie the needed corpus. I am
>purely interested in technical writing ( be it technical reports or business
>writing) and the methodology to analyse.
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>   many thanks for your help.
>
>A desperate soul
>Rafiq
>Temasek Polytechnic
>Singapore
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>Quoting Veronika Koller <Veronika.Koller at isis.wu-wien.ac.at>:
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>>Dear list members,
>>has anyone come acrooss the problem described below and found a solution to
>>it?
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>>Whenever I want to save a concordance as a txt or Word file, copy and paste
>>it to Word or the Editor, and even when expanding concordance lines, the
>>node word changes to seemingly anywhere in the text, making it impossible
>>to properly work with attested results.
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>>Since this is starting to drive me crazy, your help in maintaining sanity
>>in academia will be much appreciated indeed. ;-)
>>Thanks a lot.
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>>Regards,
>>Veronika Koller
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>>Mag.a Veronika Koller
>>Department of English/Business English
>>Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
>>Augasse 9
>>A-1090 Vienna
>>Tel.: 43/1/31336-4068
>>Fax: 43/1/31336-747
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